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...Euro Disneyland, which is scheduled to open outside Paris next spring, the French have begun to ask themselves how the presence of Disney's irresistibly American village will affect French culture. Many fear that the theme park will corrupt France's prized national identity by creating what one Parisian theater director predicts will be a "cultural Chernobyl...
...amazing. A weak start -- some feeble pastiches of Impressionism, and then a brief phase of yearning Symbolist mystagogy. But then the impact of Fauvism kicked in around 1910, and there was no stopping him. With a kind of relentless metabolic energy, Malevich started grinding through the styles of the Parisian avant-garde, producing unmistakably Russian paintings as he did so. "I remained on the side of peasant art and began to paint in the primitive spirit," he wrote later. The bulky twisting serfs in Floor Polishers, 1911-12, are the laboring cousins of the ecstatic figures in Matisse...
...cast is rounded out by Todd Forman '92 as Jean Jacquette, a scheming, Valentino-like lover; Bart St. Clair '93 as Evelyn Seid, his partner in crime; and T.J. Mitchell '91 as Gordon Bleu, the "Parisian chef" who hails from Paramus...
...popular culture to which they relate can only get into the museum as emblematic snippets, without the casual encircling power it once had. To popular culture the '70s are already medieval and the century's teens virtually Pleistocene. The curators do their best with this, reprinting front pages of Parisian newspapers that Picasso, Braque and Gris cut their collage materials from, or hanging photographs of the kinds of shopwindow display that, they persuasively argue, reinforced the cult of the Surrealist object in the '20s. But the effort to put long-gone popular culture in a museum is like trying...
...Nesbitt explains his fashion philosophy, he is joined by graduate student Kareen Obydol. Originally from Guadaloupe but also a transplanted Parisian, she is dressed in a black denim jacket and shorts ensemble. Wearing black sandals, black sunglasses, long beaded earrings and a brass ear cuff, she sports an elaborate braided hairstyle...